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Published: March 17th 2016
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Happy St. Patrick's Day! May the Luck of the Irish Be With You!
Are you keeping up with us? I certainly hope so. I can hear some of you moaning and groaning at times. Is it your knee ( like me? ) or just how you cope while navigating through my unending blogs? No matter....we have checked your tickets and you are all still with us. No refunds! So let's get going.
Our small gang (Sam, Sandy, Cory, me & Miss Lulu) headed off to a nice Italian restaurant (LaBella Napoli) in St. Cloud. We had been here last year....delicious....homemade pasta. Oh, yummy, yum yum. The internet said it was open on Sunday. WRONG! Curtains closed, lights off. "Closed on Sunday" we read on their door with our faces pressed tightly up against the car windows. Rats! We drove down the pike past Mutt's -- closed, also. Rats! The Catfish Place offers their specials only during the week but now we were hungry.....so decided to give up those couple extra bucks. We had wanted to go here this year anyway ....so now was the time. Like catfish? They are known for it - plus as Sam tells everyone: their world
Lulu attacked by giant alligator!
Save her...Save her! Going down his throat! famous hash-browns. Try them, you'll like them! They also serve turtle and 'gator plus all the other delicious dinners you can think of.
But wait! As Driver Cory, a.k.a. Bucky, turns the crowded vehicle with its smudged windows around, we are now parked next to a restaurant called Dockside Gator. I had seen one of these somewhere in Florida before. It is new to us so let's all go in and try it. The worst that can happen is that we'll get food poisoning and expel vomitus. Ooooo. Yucky picture.
OMG! We gather in front of their entrance and Lulu was immediately attacked by an gyguoondo alligator! HELP!!! Call 911 ! Fight him off! Save our beloved Lulu. She's going down his throat. We are hysterical and frantic. Lulu is panicking and choking! AND just guess who steps up to the plate to rescue our fair maiden? None other than Little Sandy. Yes, she was our savior! Lulu gave her a thousand hugs (best she could with no arms). Thank you, Thank You! Lulu insisted that we change our will and put in it that she goes to Sandy & Sam if we aren't here...like dead. She wants
to be their indentured servant for this life-saving event.....she owes them her life! Done! She now can be adopted by the Foreman's ......once we are gone, though! I think Lulu will be pretty old before any change of hands comes to be. Not sure how much she will be able to do to carry out her servitude in her old age. But she'll try her best. She has so much determination once her mind is made up.
Once we all pulled ourselves together after this terrible life threatening nightmare, we took our seats inside the restaurant. Lulu was hyperventilating (best she could with no lungs). I'm sure you all have been shaken, too.....just hearing about this near tragic episode! We were so upset, we had no appetite but managed best we could. We had their onion petals (wonderful) and zucchini fries (terrific) to start. Our main courses were very good. No room for dessert cause of the upset, remember. The Dockside Gator is similar to the Ale House. Same look and feel. It is a sports-bar with hundreds of TV's showing only sports...no CNN and political news. Rats! We ran past the angry alligator that still stood its ground
outside the entrance. Sandy gave it a final thump to remind it who was boss. Lulu cowered in her carry bag. No way was she going to be lunch to that critter again! Burn me once.......
As I said before: I don't like cooking anymore so we have been eating out ALOT! Our bathroom scale can confirm that plus any photos I show up in. Gag! Now that SeaWorld has stopped obtaining any more new Orcas, they have called me to come over and swim around in the whale tank and be their show! Salt into my wounds!
Anyway, we always have hot dogs in the refrigerator....just in case we stay home. Cory grills them and I get the condiments out. Easy Pleasy. Perfect! I did make some of my goulash the other day. I have no idea what got into me but it was a real life cooking day for me......just like Sandra Lee (NY's Gov. Cuomo's girlfriend). My name is Sandra Lee, also...for the record.
Hoping there were some friends wanting hot dogs & goulash (cause when I cook, I do it like my grandmother when she cooked for the thrashers on the farm......TONS). Our
table was seated with our good friends: Sam & Sandy, Fran(Fram as some people call him)& Connie and Jeff & Judy who completed the banquet gathering. What a menu! What a gang! The food was not fancy or correlated but enough to bring good friends together once again. That was the important item on the menu board. Lulu was in her glory. She is a real people person, you know! Our toast was said loudly by all: There Are Good Ships and Wood Ships but the Best Ships are Friendships! Yahoo! Amen!
The other day, Cory hollered into our RV that John was here and he was going to show him our RV. Sure. He had come over to get the trailer hitch spray. Well, "Hello, John Wayne Bobbitt, good to see you again." I commented on his shirt: Superman! "Yup" he answered. He liked our RV and is thinking about getting one sometime. Lulu kept signaling him - psst, psst....best she could (no voice box). Nothing goes past her. She never misses a trick. Sometimes she should have blinders put on.....she can be one busy buttinsky when she wants.
Tuesday, we headed north to see our good
friends, Linda and Jim. They live in a RV park above Clermont. They are our friends who we met selling at Brimfield years ago and have remained friends since ....that's how it should be: friends forever! Last year, they bought a gorgeous cottage (like a park model) that they had moved onto their lot. This year they added a fabulous sun room. Jim, also, has a large storage shed which he had turned into a prefect man cave. They have done a terrific job with paving and landscaping. They are so happy with it and rightly so. Linda doesn't want to leave but eventually, they will go back home to Connecticut and get ready to set up at Brimfield.
Before we left, they took us across the highway to another RV campground called Bee's. They have a restaurant ...The Honeypot Eatery....on the grounds and WOW! It's like the locals' special secret place but I think the secret has gotten out. The line was almost like a Disney line but it moved quickly & right along. Folks with growling stomachs and weak eyes went in one door and folks with fat stomachs and big smiles left out another. Even if
Jeff, Lulu and Judy
Jeff is Lulu's boyfriend the line didn't move so fast, it would have been worth any wait. Jim & Linda had told us about this place years ago when they stayed in their RV at this campground. Every Tuesday, they have an "All you Can Eat" chicken dinner for $10. On Thursday, they have Pot Roast and Friday is a fish dinner. OMG....the fried chicken (they also have baked) is a "to-die-for". Makes KFC look like it's done in an Easy Bake Oven. Besides the chicken (white or dark or both), there are delicious green beans, mashed or baked potato, gravy, biscuit, homemade cole slaw and homemade chunky applesauce. Each one - just the best! Top of the line home cooking, real comfort food. We were very comfy! Drinks included and in summertime, you get soft serve ice cream. AND remember, it's all you can eat! Lulu wanted to go back a dozen times but with no legs, her trips were limited! It is served country style....casual dining....cafeteria style. Really a fun place and well worth the drive and/or wait. Open 4-7 (winter hours). To say we had a great time visiting Jim & Linda is an understatement. Thank you very much for a
marvelous visit and dinner. Stay well & stay in touch!
And to all of you, dear friends and family. Good Friends are like stars, you don't always see them but you know they are always there! Stay Well & Shine bright, everyone.
PS....Remember to keep scrolling way down for more photos.
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Ginny Putnam
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So close--and NO visit!
I have enjoyed every blog you've ever writtern--think you should write a book. You know, you could have visited us the day you went to Bee's! We stay at the Days Inn almost next door. We're headed back home Mon. to be home for Easter (and Easter egg hunts)l We'll catch up with with your humorous blogs when we get home.